New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage /

New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage /

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"The first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth and nineteenth-century countertexts that actively compare culturally diverse marriage practices from Canada to the Caribbean"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature - General.
Languages & Literatures.
Sex in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Man-woman relationships.
Courtship in literature.
Companionate marriage.
Literature, Modern
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Mariage dans la litterature.
Amours dans la litterature.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la litterature.
Litterature > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Relations entre hommes et femmes > Études transculturelles.
Mariage compagnonnage > Études transculturelles.
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Man-woman relationships > Cross-cultural studies.
Companionate marriage > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: mapping marriage
  • Why marriage mattered then
  • Comparing rights, comparing stories
  • Making room for coquettes and fallen women
  • A postcolonial heroine "writes back"
  • Bungling bundling
  • Epilogue: why marriage matters now.

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